I suggest selling inferior grade coppper. Your name will be immortalized!
Re:The Rocky Horror Coffin Clock
by bqmjjx0kac on Sunday May 07, 2023 @11:38AM
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I hate to undermine your point, but I have no idea what you're referring to :)
Re:The Rocky Horror Coffin Clock
by IntrepidWorm on Monday May 08, 2023 @03:41PM
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https://xkcd.com/2758/
Another whimsical XKCD reference.
One of the oldest recorded writing is a yelp complaint about crappy copper.
Re:The Rocky Horror Coffin Clock
by JoelMcCracken on Sunday May 07, 2023 @11:58AM
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https://xkcd.com/1053/
I don’t generally like obligatory xkcd references, but this one is an exception. I like how it reminds us that our experiences are not universal, and people have all kinds of experience spatterings, even if we may come from a shared cultural background. And, instead of the inclination to feel superior to someone who doesn’t know a thing, we can instead feel pleased to share our beloved cultural touchstones.
Re:The Rocky Horror Coffin Clock
by JoelMcCracken on Sunday May 07, 2023 @12:50PM
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But yeah, this meme goes deep. I saw this the other day, and it took me a second to get it https://twitter.com/LegbootLegit/status/1652003586740502545
I had a coworker, originally from India, who had not heard of the 1918 flu pandemic. (This came up back when COVID was first ramping up.) Apparently it's not taught about in India, even though it killed many millions.
Re:The Rocky Horror Coffin Clock
by GauntletWizard on Monday May 08, 2023 @01:19AM
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It was barely taught in my American world history class, except as a footnote to WWI.
The goal was not that "everybody knows your name"; only that one's identity be well-known enough that it will not be forgotten, or at least (in this particular case) be rediscoverable. So the point is not undermined at all.
If fame is the objective, there is also arson to consider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herostratus
If you plan to immortalize yourself in a negative way you can just pull a Pompeii and start doing graffiti. A few crude dick drawings and raunchy jokes signed with your name should be enough to keep future archeologists entertained.
The graffiti is the easy part. The city destroying volcanic explosions right afterwards is the tricky part.
...but if you can put your name to that, others will do the immortalizing for you.
For example, Pliny the Elder (or Younger). That type of eruption is now called "Plinian".
ha! I actually got the reference!
I find it interesting the people actually think they might be special enough that people in a "few scant centuries" would even care to know who you were. We've long left the 15 minutes of fame to thinking we'll live in history.
Re:The Rocky Horror Coffin Clock
by robinwassen on Sunday May 07, 2023 @01:11PM
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Well, there are highs and lows when it comes to being known a century later.
From my hometown I think there are two past living things that people are aware of a century later.
First is Alfred Nobel of the Nobel Prize, no further explanation needed I guess.
The second is a circus horse that I couldn't explain why people care about 100 years later even if I tried.
If I'm remembering correctly, the circus horse invented dynamite.
It’s less that people will remember dylan604 and more that they find your skeleton laying around and can’t figure out whose it is (and therefore assume it must be King Charles’).
I don't see it that way, as I see it more of dylan604 doesn't care if someone can properly identify dylan604's bones let alone assume that someone in the future will give one iota of care about what a dylan604 even means. Besides, I plan on being cremated so there will not be anything left to ID. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust and all that completion of the circle of life stuff. Everyone being entombed in their plastic sarcophagi are breaking that cycle. Can't even become worm food in those.
Perhaps I should develop a way to tattoo bones in life so that in death you can be known.